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Young Cain (1959)

Young Cain (1959)

Drama
Release Date: 1959, October 5
Directors: Román Chalbaud
Countries: Venezuela
Production: Allegro Films (VE), Producciones Alfil, Allegro Films (VE), Producciones Alfil

Overview:

Juana moves with her son Juan from the country to Caracas in search of better work and educational opportunities. When they get there they have to live in a poor home in one of the slums located in the city's outskirts, where they encounter a horrible world full of promiscuity and misery, that is quite different from what they expected and that eventually will lead Juana to self-destruction and Juan to reconsider his life in the city.

Keywords:

poverty pregnancy motherhood life in the slums neorealism